Oxford University Press announced that their Word of the Year for 2013 is selfie. They noted that they wrote about this word first in 2012, and they claimed the first recorded usage of the term was in 2002 in reference to a photo of a busted lip on an Australian message board. (Here’s our take on selfie in case you missed it last week.)

Related: Lorien Kite investigates how long it takes to add a word to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Do you think selfie deserved to be Word of the Year? What other contestants should be considered? Stay tuned for Dictionary.com’s very own 2013 Word of the Year announcement!